RBI strengthening surveillance framework with rapid growth in fintech innovations: Das

26 Apr 2019 Evaluate

In view of the growing significance of fintech innovations and their growing interface with the financial sector entities, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das has said that the central bank is strengthening its surveillance framework. He also said that the RBI is continuously aligning its regulatory and supervisory framework so that the evolution of fintech can be leveraged to widen and ease the financial access by the excluded population. 

According to RBI Governor, the emergence of fintech/digital innovations are a strong transformative force that can reshape the global financial sector. He pointed out that a big benefit of these technological developments is the scope to expand financial outreach in a cost-effective manner, which in turn can deepen financial inclusion. Taking cognisance of the exponential growth of digitisation and online commerce, he said policy efforts are directed to put in place a state-of-the-art national payments infrastructure and technology platform.

Das further said that the central bank recently released a draft ‘Enabling Framework for Regulatory Sandbox’ in order to support the country’s rapidly growing fintech space. He noted that a regulatory sandbox usually refers to live testing of new products or services in a controlled/test regulatory environment for which regulators may (or may not) permit certain regulatory relaxations for the limited purpose of the testing.

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